I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.